The president of United States, Joe Biden will travel to Texas in the coming days with the first lady, Jill Biden, to offer his support to the families of those murdered in the mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, which has claimed the lives of 19 children, two teachers and the attacker himself.
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“We will travel to Texas in the next few days to meet with families (…) and hopefully offer some comfort to a shocked, hurt and traumatized community,” the president said on Wednesday when presenting an executive order to reform the protocols of the federal security forces.
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Biden, who did not specify the exact date of his visit, defended the need to pass “common sense” gun control laws, which, although they would not serve to prevent any tragedy, could have a great impact on the levels of violence with weapons. from the country.
“The idea that an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy weapons of war designed and advertised to kill is wrong,” the president lamented. The president once again made an appeal to confront the “lobby” of weapons.
“It’s time to actr,” he said as he called on the Senate to confirm the nomination of the White House’s nominee to lead the government agency that oversees weapons law enforcement.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been without a permanent director for seven years due to lack of agreement.
On Tuesday afternoon, an 18-year-old armed with an automatic rifle killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in the Texas town of Uvalde, before being shot dead by police.
It is the second mass murder in the country in less than two weeks; On May 14, a white supremacist murdered ten people, most of them African-Americans, in a supermarket in the town of Buffalo, New York.
Numerous Democratic Party politicians and civil leaders have called for greater controls on the purchase of weapons in the country, while the Republican authorities of Texas have put the focus on mental health problems that, in their opinion, are in the root of the event.
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